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One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Northland Gardens
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- Address. Westland Ave., Westhampton Rd., Rutland Dr., and Westover Rd. between Southfield Rd., & the John C. Lodge Freeway, Southfield, 48075
- When was it listed? January 2020
- Category. district
- City. Southfield city
- National Register reference number. 100004660 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
84 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Northland Gardens between 2018 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0032226 - 2019 |
| 6 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0032843 - 2018 |
| 3 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0031469 - 2019 |
| 3 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0031480 - 2019 |
| 25 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0034521 - 2019 |
| 14 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0032979 - 2019 |
| 8 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0028243 - 2019 |
| 4 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0027677 - 2019 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Northland Gardens: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beardsley Bros.Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southfield, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Lightning | Southfield | $125,000 | Lightning struck an apartment building, causing a fire that destroyed two units and damaged the administrative office. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southfield | $10,000 | Large tree limbs were blown down, along with 4 houses suffering roof/shingle damage. |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Southfield | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southfield | - | Large tree was blown down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southfield | - | A spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southfield | - | Dozen of large tree limbs reported down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southfield | - | Three trees were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southfield | - | A trained spotter reported power lines blown down. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Southfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Southfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Southfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Southfield | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Southfield | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Southfield | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southfield | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plumbrooke Estates | 2.0 miles | 2019 | |
 | Lathrup Village Historic District | 3.2 miles | 1998 |
 | Pleasant Ridge Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 3.5 miles | 2010 |
 | Detroit Zoological Park | 3.6 miles | 1990 |
 | Pleasant Ridge Historic District | 3.8 miles | 1992 |
 | Pleasant Ridge East Historic District | 4.1 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004660 in Record Group 79. |
| Oakland County | All 87 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.